PROGRAMME

70 / Family planning and reproductive health

8 – 14 September 2003

Course directors:

Gernot Desoye, University of Graz, AustriaPeter Weiss, University of Graz, AustriaJosip Đelmiš , University of Zagreb, CroatiaJoško Zekan, University of Zagreb, CroatiaDunja Obersnel Kveder, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Course description:

Family planning and reproductive health are fundamental human rights. Ensuring the reproductive health of future generations, their sexual health and social rights, can not be sole responsibility of women. This concept of gender equality in family planning and reproductive health, highly disputed only few years ago, is nowAdays increasingly accepted.Reproductive health needs in many developing countries are largely underestimated. Groups with highest need for family planning are adolescents, unmarried men, people with disabilities and the poor. In addition, cultural factors often make it hard to openly address issues of family planning and sexual behaviour.